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Are you a PC gamer? Then trust us on this: there is no other component nearly as important as the graphics card.
Yes, your monitor and even your mouse matter. But nothing has more impact on both frame rates and fun than your graphics card. Problem is, at any moment there are scores of cards to choose from and they typically all claim to have pixel-pushing perfection.
The simple solution is to buy the very best. But that also means the most expensive. For most of us, then, it's all about bang-for-buck at a given budget. Just remember to think carefully about how you match your graphics card with the rest of your PC.
If you have a super-high resolution monitor, for instance, you're going to need a high-end graphics card to make the most of it. But, equally, there's little point unloading on the finest GPU money can buy if its being bottlenecked by an old CPU or feeding a feeble screen.
With all that in mind, here's our guide to not only the fastest, but also the best value PC graphics you can buy.

1. Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X

The fastest and the finest single-GPU graphics card on the planet
Price: around £870
What was that we were saying about excessively expensive graphics cards? The Titan X ain't cheap. Not even nearly. But then the best never is. And make no mistake, the Titan X is clearly, undeniably, indisputably the best single-GPU graphics card you can buy. This time around, Nvidia has given us a Titan card that's purely for gaming and it's all the better for it. Yes, there are cards with two GPUs on board that can better it in some tests. But they are also less reliable. Money no object, it's the board we'd buy – except we'd have two of 'em!
Which board to buy:
Unless you go for an exotic custom-cooled effort, Titan X's are all the same, so you may as well grab something like Overclockers UK own-brand effort, which is about a cheap as they come, if you can call £870 cheap.